Chiezō Kataoka Movies

Chiezo's two-guns-at-all-costs film, directed by Ozawa Shigehiro (Kengo Tengu Matsuri) from a screenplay by Matsuura Kenro (The Dice Magistrate)....

Kindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the other according to an ancient tradition on an...

This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit harakiri in response to the humiliation meted out to...

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Sequel to "Island of Horrors" (獄門島, 1949).

One after another, expedition teams were being attacked in the Himalayas. With the unprecedented boom in snow men, the public began to make a fuss...

Second film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose merchant family is much beyond Kakunojo's status....

Silent jidaigeki film

Okawa Hashizo is 'Red Peony' Hanji who is thrown into a prison cell where he gets involved in a plot to steal government gold from the Shogun's...

The conclusion of the story of famed swordsman, Sasaki Kojiro. After surviving a series of daring adventures, Kojiro seems to have finally discovered...

In 1691 a terrible fire broke out in Denmacho, Yotsuya, burning down the towns around it, up to the shores of Shibaura. A month and a half later,...

Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel.

1950 Japanese movie

Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.